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Website dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com Launched October 25, 2007; 9 years ago (2007-10-25) | ||
Dot Earth is an award-winning environmental blog and associated media by science writer Andrew Revkin for the New York Times. The blog's aim is to "examine efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits".
Contents
Featuring videos, interviews and other types of information, Dot Earth is described further as "an interactive exploration of trends and ideas with readers and experts."
History
Posted on October 25, 2007, Revkin's first entry on Dot Earth was on "Cutting Greenhouse Gases for Cash Prizes". In April 2010, "after 940 posts as a news blog", The New York Times moved Dot Earth to the "Opinion side" of its online site. After nine years and 2,810 posts, Revkin ended the blog on 5 December, 2016, just before he began work as a senior reporter for Propublica.
Readership
According to a Pace University press release—an institution with which the blog's author is associated, the blog "is ... read by millions of people in more than 200 countries from Brazil to China".